Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Multiple circuit control – Pivoted contact
Patent
1975-01-31
1976-02-17
Miller, J. D.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Multiple circuit control
Pivoted contact
73 492, 200 83R, 317DIG3, 340242, H01H 4700
Patent
active
039393836
ABSTRACT:
A liquid level monitoring device operable either to detect leakage from a body of liquid or to detect deviations from a controlled rate of withdrawal from a body of liquid. The device employs a pressure responsive diaphragm which, in the face of unequalized pressures applied to its opposite sides, is operable to actuate a control switch. One side of the diaphragm is exposed to a constant pressure, which may be atmospheric, while the other side of the diaphragm is connected to an open ended probe submerged in the body of liquid. When employed as a leak detector, the device is set by opening a solenoid controlled valve connected across a diaphragm to equalize pressure at opposite sides of the diaphragm while the probe is submerged in the body of liquid. Subsequent dropping of the level in the body of liquid after closure of the valve will reduce the head pressure sensed by the probe, thus unequalizing the pressure across the diaphragm to actuate the control switch which may, for example, be connected to trigger an alarm. A second by-pass connected across opposite sides of the diaphragm in parallel with the first by-pass includes a variable restricted orifice which provides a sensitivity adjustment in the leak detecting operation. By opening the orifice in the second by-pass to a selected opening, the device may be employed to monitor dropping of the liquid level at a selected rate.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3218856 (1965-11-01), Bossard
patent: 3460386 (1969-08-01), Guignard
patent: 3538746 (1970-11-01), Jacobs et al.
Miller J. D.
Moose Jr. Harry E.
The Wickes Corporation
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